Paul Armand Phillips ’38

Paul died March 19, 2005, in Palo Alto, Calif.

He prepared at Townsend Harris High School and Princeton Prep. During college, he was a member of the varsity boxing team and the chess team, and graduated with a bachelor's in classics.

Thereafter, he began evening courses at Brooklyn Law School. During World War II, Paul enlisted in the Army, serving as a member of the Office of Strategic Services in Greece and Egypt. Postwar, Paul was a Columbia Law Review editor and then earned a master's in taxation from NYU Law School.

After teaching at the University of Nebraska Law School, he moved to Albuquerque, where for 35 years he pursued a civil-rights law practice that included numerous battles for the ACLU and other clients. He received the UN Human Rights Award in 1966, an NAACP award, and a lifetime achievement award from the ACLU's New Mexico chapter. A local newspaper editor described him as "the lion of civil liberties" in New Mexico and added, "Paul perpetuates all that is good about his profession."

Paul's wife, Casey, predeceased him. He is survived by his son, Benjamin; daughters Alice and Joyce; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. The class extends its sympathy to all the family.

The Class of 1938